Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to do to your workers, both for their health and their attention span.
I wonder how well something like the following would work (seen in paid fire/EMS circles): 24 on, 48 off. But staff those 24 shifts with maybe 20% more than actually needed to provide minimum coverage. Of course, that all assumes that you can trust your guys to work out the dynamics of "hey, you watch for the next 30 while I take a break". -c
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:24:40 -0000, Coy Hile said:
I wonder how well something like the following would work (seen in paid fire/EMS circles):
24 on, 48 off.
Note that for much of those 24 on, the people are actually on downtime on site in case the buzzer goes off. Heck, the station even has enough beds in it for half the crew to be asleep. ;) So probably *not* applicable to NOC scheduling.
From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Sun Apr 17 08:25:23 2011 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:24:40 +0000 Subject: Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 39, Issue 52 From: Coy Hile <coy.hile@coyhile.com> To: nanog@nanog.org
Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to do to your workers, both for their health and their attention span.
I wonder how well something like the following would work (seen in paid fire/EMS circles):
24 on, 48 off.
But staff those 24 shifts with maybe 20% more than actually needed to provide minimum coverage.
That kind of schedule works well *ONLY* where the primary activity is 'sit and wait for something to happen'. Where it is OK to sleep on the job, as long as you come fully awake when the alarm goes off.
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